All About Pri 1 Registration for Foreigners & Phase 3

[RRMummy]

Julia Wu:

Any parents have experience in phase 3 registration? Want to know how early shall I go to queue up? 2am, 4am, 6am?


Thanks!

Hi Julia,

Sorry, I personally do not have experience with Phase 3.

IMHO it really depends on the school that you are aiming at. If it is one of those which have vacancies even after Phase 3 (historically), then you can go there after a good night rest.

BTW, which school are you aiming at?

[cherrygal]

Julia Wu:

Any parents have experience in phase 3 registration? Want to know how early shall I go to queue up? 2am, 4am, 6am?


Thanks!

If you want to go to Guangyang (which still has 112 places), you can stroll there at 8am. If you are eyeing those with only 10 places left, then please start lining up by 6am. No personal experience but heard about this fr others.

[tankee]

cherrygal:

Julia Wu:

Any parents have experience in phase 3 registration? Want to know how early shall I go to queue up? 2am, 4am, 6am?


Thanks!

If you want to go to Guangyang (which still has 112 places), you can stroll there at 8am. If you are eyeing those with only 10 places left, then please start lining up by 6am. No personal experience but heard about this fr others.

:goodpost:

Then again, foreigners may not be as kiasu as locals thus, no need to be too early? :?

[tankee]

cherrygal:

Julia Wu:

Any parents have experience in phase 3 registration? Want to know how early shall I go to queue up? 2am, 4am, 6am?


Thanks!

If you want to go to Guangyang (which still has 112 places), you can stroll there at 8am. If you are eyeing those with only 10 places left, then please start lining up by 6am. No personal experience but heard about this fr others.

:goodpost:

Then again, foreigners may not be as kiasu as locals thus, no need to be too early? :?

[cherrygal]

tankee:

Then again, foreigners may not be as kiasu as locals thus, no need to be too early? :?

If it is us locals, you will see tents being set up tonite...

[RRMummy]

tankee:

cherrygal:

[quote=\"Julia Wu\"]Any parents have experience in phase 3 registration? Want to know how early shall I go to queue up? 2am, 4am, 6am?


Thanks!

If you want to go to Guangyang (which still has 112 places), you can stroll there at 8am. If you are eyeing those with only 10 places left, then please start lining up by 6am. No personal experience but heard about this fr others.

:goodpost:

Then again, foreigners may not be as kiasu as locals thus, no need to be too early? :?[/quote]Unless, you have locals who did not like the schools that were assigned to themm by MOE? :idea:

[tankee]

Vacancy for phase 3 will be announced on 29 Aug 12noon, after the manual posting of unsuccessful Singaporean and Singapore PR.

[Julia Wu]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/296502/1/.html


I saw this, so scary!

[Julia Wu]

Want to share my experience on Phase 3 registration here, leaving some information for foreigner parents next year.


MOE announced vacancie at noon 29th Aug. Only 8 seats left in Seng Kang Primary.

30th Aug, I got up at 4am in the morning, arrived at main entrance (gate1) of Seng Kang Primary school around 5am. I saw a parent already sitting there (with his own stool). He told me he just arrived 10 min before.

5 min later I found there was a sign board at the gate saying "please queue at gate2". I walked around and found gate2, there were another 2 parents already waiting there. I called the parent at gate 1 and joined the queue at gate2 together. (Be careful, otherwise you came early without any result).

We voluntarily kept a piece of paper with sequential record of when we arrived. The first one came at 2am, secound around 2-3. By 6:10, all 8 vacancies are filled.

At 7:00 we were allowed to go inside the school and issued an official sequencial number by a teacher according to the sequencial we voluntarily kept.

Later there are some more parents came and was adviced to go to other places.

[bettydraper]

Hi tankee, expat parents can be kiasu too!


I can share my experience now that this whole thing is over.
My husband and I woke up at 5:30a.m. to queue up for the registration at Queenstown Pri (at this point only 24 places were left for the Phase 3 registration). When we arrived 20 minutes later, we were given queue number 16. We were very relieved that we had made it, as shortly before 7:00a.m. the last queue number, 24, was given out. After 7:00a.m. the school guard was turning away other parents and telling them to head to another school (New Town, perhaps?).

According to the security guard, the first parent queued up at 12 midnight. Other dads and mums followed around 3:00a.m., then more of us a little after 5:00a.m. The parents were from England, Spain, China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Germany, Netherlands, India, Philippines, and Ireland.

The registration process started at 8:00a.m. and it was orderly. I was surprised that the school had set up 24 seats (same number as the remaining places at the school) at their front lobby for the waiting parents. I had imagined we would be standing/ camping outside the gate at dawn… The administration was helpful and courteous with all of us whilst we filled out the forms. Our registration lasted less than half an hour. It was nice to see the children coming in to school that morning as I suppose we were imagining what it would be like when our kids start P1. So yes, we are looking forward to our child being in Queenstown Primary next year!